The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-14

Braintree.
FLORENCE, daughter of Stillman LOOMS, |
was taken sick Saturday morning and died |
about half-past three in the afternoon, being |
i'll only about eight hours. Her death |
was caused by stoppage. She was nine |
years and six month old. The funeral was
held on Sunday. 1900 II. j. Bass and Sher- |
man Godfrey of Lowell, Mass, are visiting
their parents and friends. - Otis Flint's |
daughter, who has been spending the sum
mer with her grandparents, has returned to
her home in Lowell, Mass. - Eugene
Kimball of Boston is in town visiting rela-
tives aud friends. 80 Nettie Flint, who
has been in st. Adams at work, is at home
on the sick list.
BrookfieId.
Hon. d. II. THING of Maine, deputy lee
turer of the National Grange, will speak
here September 22d, afternoon and evening.
The afternoon address will be upon the
work of the order. All Patrons from neigh
boring oranges are invited. The evening
meeting will be public and the citizens are
cordially invited to attend. - l.. w.
Jones and wife, formerly of Waitshed,
have been spending the summer at w. G.
Clarks. Mr.. Jones is very low with con-
sumption. n. Davenport died of ty-
phoid fever Thursday last. - This town
sends quite a delegation to West Randolph
to school, some sixteen or eighteen in
all. - Mrs. NJ. Peck and Mrs. w. C..
Clark have returned from Saratoga. -
Leila and Marshall Peck are attending
school at Montpelier.
Chelsea.
REV. WILLIAM H. ROBERTS preached at
the Methodist church on Sunday morning
AT the Congregational church the pulpit
was occupied by Rev Dr. w. a. Farms
worth who has been for thirty-fve years a
missionary of the American Board, and has
been stationed at Cesarea, in Asatic Turkey,
since 1854. He also spoke in the evening,
his remarks being on both occasions deeply
interesting. - Il. w. Stratton's barn, in
Washington, was struck by lightning on
Wednesday afternoon and totally consumed,
with its contents. - l.. II. Sanborn and
family have gone to Saratoga. - Elisha
Nation has bought Miss Susan NJ. Gilmans
house for 1926, - Thomas p. Moore has
bought Mrs. Anna III. Puffer's place and
will remove there this fall. - William
A. Hood has moved into j. NJ. Comstock's
house, opposite the Methodist parsonage.
- Edward A. Davis has returned from
his European trip and is spending few
weeks with his mother. - Mrs. Orville
Noyes, formerly of this town, died recently
| in Haverhill, n. II.
CHELSEA ACADEMY.
WE have been glad to see few more
scholars come in this week. Among them
are Miss Eta Martin of Williamstown,
Julian Griffin, George Bowen and John
Hardy. - As yet only one person has
visited school-Miss Laura Marston. -
| The new bookcase is an improvement, but
we rather wish there was some glass about
the doors and that it had been painted.
"A former teacher in our school
Miss Ella X. Herrick - leaves Tuesday
for Mr.. Moody's school at Mortified,
Mass. - One new scholar Monday morn
| ing-Frank Bixby. We also had a visitor
Mrs. Lasel, Miss Martins sister. 60
The Rotations are becoming more inter
esting, especially in physiology. The prac-
teal questions in that study afford ample
means for discussion and the answers are
sometimes rather amusing. Quite a discus
sion arose over the questions " Does horse
travel with less fatigue over fiat than a
hilly country?' When questions were
asked concerning the kinds of levers used
in various motions of the body one scholar
somewhat amused the others by performing
those motions and trying to decide how tC
answer the questions.
Newbury.
Mr.. DUDLEY KIMBALL, who some two
weeks ago broke his thigh, is very low
Being eghty-seven years of age, it is doubt
full if he RECEIVERS. He was on ladder
mending door and, falling, met with his Sc
rious accident. - Seventy-ive attended
J the Sunday-school picnic at Fairlee pond
Tuesday. - Miss Ada Eastman lief
Tuesday for Minneapolis, where she vii
spend the winter among friends. - Owe
the Odd Fellows excursion to the Weirs OF
! Thursday Those who heard A. j. Houghi
poem were well paid for the trip. - Tn,
village schools opened here Monday. Bell,
Hubbard teaches the lower department an,
, Lucia Watkins the upper department. Ell;
? Dunlap teaches in the Ox-bow district
- 7. G. Keyes has a new clerk-Ed
ward r. Goss of Lower Waterford.
East Orange.
, THERE was heavy frost Sunday morn
( ing, the first of the season to do any dam
age. 80 The potato crop is "A light on
| and they are rotting badly. Some farmer
| will not raise enough for their own use
= - Mrs. Frank Lamb remains very low
3 with no hopes of recovery. - Man
r from this place attended the camp-meetin
> at Waits River the past week, All repor
Y a pleasant time. - Nelson Town an
; wife of Keene, n H.. have been visitn
b. friends here the past two weeks. - I
= ID. Hutchinson has commenced putting i
/, the cellar walls for large horse-barn.
East Randolph.
| REV. S. A. PARKER will preach in thi
r place next Sunday forenoon at the usuf
e hour Subject. " Repentance and the Kinl
{ dom of Heaven"
}. West Randolph.
EIGHT young men from this town went t
: Dartmouth College last week. Five wer
!, / lOf tnt nrSJ Il1nt. - Ezra JeWtll an
wife and Nellie Harmon started for Detroi
! Mich, Monday, where they will resid,
!, - Rev. II. A. Spencer will move frol
u the Center into the Burroughs house, bac
!, of the Methodist Episcopal church. -
. Some young people were baptized in I'll
: Baptist church Sunday evening. -
g There were no services at the Congregi
= tional church last Sunday morning. -
. Services are now held at the Epscopi
!, church on Sunday in the morning and
u the afternoon at the Center. 80 Georg
i OF the Burroughs house on Main stree
i, 80 The Kimballs returned to Brookly
last Monday. 60 Lizzie Gilbert of Taft
;. vile has been visiting at w. II, II. Thayer'
y 60 Grace Gay is attending the New FL
u gland Conservatory of Music in Boston. HI
y mother now resides there. 60 FlorenC
= Loomis was buried Sunday. Her age WI
ten years. She died of cholera infantuI
- Friday several of the Good Tempa
D. enjoyed ride to the Tip-top House c
)f Rochester Mountain. - A. b. Haywal
II has moved on to his farm in East Randolph
d - Lillian Cram and Rose Winterhill
re Shelburne Falls, Mass, are visiting Il
Misses Ford. 60 Frank Harris of Mort
'e field has the job of laying the pipe from u
'e water-mains to the houses. 80 Louis
'e Barnes of Woodstock has been visitir
I'd Granville Barnes, her uncle. 60 III
n widow Chadwick has rented part of h
Il house to Ii. Il. Morse. == Mrs. A.
IN Gray of Boston is visiting friends in tow
is 60 Lightning struck the large pine-tr